Let's eat oysters!

Concierge Festive season Stéphane Méjanès Publié le 16/12/2020

Let's eat oysters!

Today, forty Relais & Châteaux chefs with over fifty Michelin stars are raising their voices to support their oyster producers.

Gift Boxes: Contemplating |the Seven Cardinal Delights

Concierge Festive season Vicky Chahine Publié le 13/11/2020

Gift Boxes: Contemplating
the Seven Cardinal Delights

Want to daydream about what you’re going to do “after”? Here are seven Relais & Châteaux gift-box ideas for indulging in life’s greatest delights – as soon they’re again within reach.

10 magical destinations | to spend Christmas holidays

Concierge Festive season Tamlin Wightman Publié le 17/12/2018

10 magical destinations
to spend Christmas holidays

To make Christmas vacations stand out from another, we recommend changing the scene, breaking tradition for something new. How about a Christmas underwater or on the farm, in the wild or in the woods?

Contributors

Jane Knight Travel editor at the Times

Jane Knight
Travel editor at the Times

Stéphane Méjanès Committed gastronomic journalist

Stéphane Méjanès
Committed gastronomic journalist

Vicky Chahine Lifestyle journalist from Paris (M Le Monde, Le Point...)

Vicky Chahine
Lifestyle journalist from Paris (M Le Monde, Le Point...)

Tamlin Wightman Travel writer and photographer

Tamlin Wightman
Travel writer and photographer

The Longest New Year’s Eve

Concierge Festive season Tamlin Wightman Publié le 23/12/2019

The Longest New Year’s Eve

From New Zealand to Tahiti, it will take 24 hours for the sun to rise on 2020! Here are ten magical places, broken down by time zone, to celebrate the New Year in style.

The Christmas cakes of Europe

Concierge Festive season Publié le 13/12/2019

The Christmas cakes of Europe

It is the most eagerly awaited dessert of the year! All across Europe, as the festive season approaches, pastry chefs out-invent one another with new interpretations of this traditional must-eat treat. Here’s a collection of these delicacies for you to try before opening the presents under the tree.

The best Christmas markets|to visit in Europe

Concierge Festive season Tamlin Wightman Publié le 06/12/2019

The best Christmas markets
to visit in Europe

The spirit of Christmas celebrated in the diverse corners of Europe shows up in an exciting pastiche of tales and traditions. One of the finest ways to experience this is to cast yourself into the centre of the merriment: a Christmas Market.

A New Year's Eve | cut off from the world

Concierge Festive season Tamlin Wightman Publié le 27/12/2018

A New Year's Eve
cut off from the world

For once, skip the loud parties, forgo the busy streets and squares, and celebrate a New Year’s Eve with the peace and natural magic of our planet’s most far-flung destinations of the world. Here are ten places for a New Year more remote, more rugged, more real than usual.